A glimpse of Mexico City
Thursday, February 16th, 2006 by k.see
Im finding tons of Graffiti in Mexico City, and im trying to take pictures of ALL of it. Of course I´m having an exetremly difficult time doing that, since it rivals Sao Paulo (usually), as the largest city in the world. With over 23 million people, theres a ton of writers and folks putting up all kinds of stuff. I haven´t found anything as unique and unifiying as pixação, a brasilian lettering style, although the layers of paint and paper is similiar to NYC, and super beautiful. There´s a buttload of freehand graf, etches, scratchies, and tags. A fair amount of stencils and stickers. Wheatpasted posters and paper are what I´m finding the least of. I hope to post a whole bunch more later in my travels, and talk of some art collectives that make ¨spectaculos urbanos,¨ billboard alterations! and write about the bad ass projects that folks have been sustaining here, so keep an eye out!
The stencil in the third photo translates into ¨There are many things that don´t change, and the heart is one of them…¨
If you are an artist in Mexico, wanna meet up or have any advice, shoot me an email at:
visual.resistance(at)gmail.com
